Tay Ninh customs seize 7kg of methamphetamine
VNA Saturday, July 6, 2019

Retty Gunawan, an Indonesia national, was arrested while attempting to transport methamphetamine to Vietnam (Photo: VNA)

Tay Ninh (VNA) – Customs officers from the south-eastern province of Tay Ninh have seized 7kg of methamphetamine transported by an Indonesian from Cambodia to Vietnam.

Nguyen Van Cuong, deputy head of the Customs Department of Moc Bai international border gate, said on July 6 that the department handed over Retty Gunawan, born in 1966, from Indonesia, to Tay Ninh police for further inspection.

At 20:15 on July 5, customs officers at Moc Bai international border gate in Ben Cau district, Tay Ninh province, suspected a suitcase of a passenger entering Vietnam from Cambodia containing non-declared goods, and conducted inspection as regulated.

The suitcase’s owner, Retty Gunawan, presented her passport issued on March 5, 2013, in Belawan, Indonesia.

The inspection found white solid crystals wrapped in nylon inside the suitcase and a quick-test confirmed it is methamphetamine.

Gunawan confessed that the white crystals are methamphetamine.

At 15:30 on July 5, she bought a bus ticket in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) to transport around 7kg of methamphetamine to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).
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thats alot of drugs you got there, damn nice granny

*sigh*

It is automatic death penalty upon conviction in Vietnam for importing greater than 600 grams.

Perhaps "Rather Plain Looking, Older Indonesian Woman Arrested in Vietnam Carrying 7kgs of Meth from Phnom Penh" would be more accurate?

Indonesian woman sentenced to death in Vietnam for trafficking meth
By Hoang Phong March 10, 2020 | 11:43 am GMT+7

A Tay Ninh Province court Monday sentenced an Indonesian woman to death for trafficking 6.7 kg of methamphetamine over the border from Cambodia.

Retty Gunawan, 54, was arrested in July last year after customs officials at the Moc Bai border gate in the southern province checked her luggage on suspicion.

Inside, they found white solid crystals wrapped in nylon and a quick test confirmed it was meth.

Gunawan told the police she had been hired by a compatriot she identified as Monica to carry the drugs from Cambodia to the Philippines and paid $500.

It is not known if the police are looking for Monica.

Vietnam has some of the world's toughest drug laws. Those convicted of possessing or smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine face the death penalty.
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MangoVilla wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 4:53 am It is automatic death penalty upon conviction in Vietnam for importing greater than 600 grams.

And it should be, so many lives would have been ruined otherwise. Just for personal use always stay well lower than the duty free 600 grams limit.

Marty wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:02 pm

MangoVilla wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 4:53 am It is automatic death penalty upon conviction in Vietnam for importing greater than 600 grams.

And it should be, so many lives would have been ruined otherwise. Just for personal use always stay well lower than the duty free 600 grams limit.

Gunawan told the police she had been hired by a compatriot she identified as Monica to carry the drugs from Cambodia to the Philippines and paid $500.....

But not for her....this "mules" are not the real guilty People in drug trafic. Sure, if you don't punish them, there will be much more trying to do it. But death penalty for this granny ?

...just to know, that she did it for 500 $ proove, that she is a victime......

leitfaden wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:59 pm

Marty wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:02 pm

MangoVilla wrote: ↑Mon Jul 08, 2019 4:53 am It is automatic death penalty upon conviction in Vietnam for importing greater than 600 grams.

And it should be, so many lives would have been ruined otherwise. Just for personal use always stay well lower than the duty free 600 grams limit.

Gunawan told the police she had been hired by a compatriot she identified as Monica to carry the drugs from Cambodia to the Philippines and paid $500.....

But not for her....this "mules" are not the real guilty People in drug trafic. Sure, if you don't punish them, there will be much more trying to do it. But death penalty for this granny ?

...just to know, that she did it for 500 $ proove, that she is a victime......

Sure, I'm not sure how much ice costs in bulk but I'd guess at least $15,000 a kilo? So seven kilos of that for a lousy five hundred bucks? Just another desperate person thinking they are going to make easy money and ending up hanged.

Should get 5 years and the people who send mules should get life or death penalty. How difficult is it to get the people behind it if you already have one link of the chain?